The legendary and notorious Gecko brothers return with Seth and his violent unpredictable brother Richie on the run after Richie is haunted by visions of demons triggering a bloodbath during a bank robbery gone wrong. Heading for the Mexico border the Geckos encounter former minister Jacob Fuller and his family whom they take hostage by commandeering their RV. But when a run-in with a drug cartel reroutes the Geckos to a strip club populated by vampires they must all fight until dawn in order to survive.
Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk till Dawn, was an intriguing blend of post-Pulp Fiction noir meets John Carpenter style horror with a nod to vampire movies like The Lost Boys, Hammer's Dracula and even a mid 80s episode of Tales from the Crypt.
I had absolutely no idea how they could turn that film into a TV show and expect it to work but Rodriguez somehow manages to pull it off: The series begins as a straightforward, and somewhat pointless, remake of the movie; with sibling armed-robbers-on-the-run; Seth and Riche Gecko (originally played by George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino, now by DJ Cotrona and Zane Holtz) trying to make it over the Texas border into Mexico.
The series differs from the film in that we get more time to develop each character and they're some nice touches where we see scenes that were going on at other times e.g. in the movie, Riche Gecko asks Seth what took him so long to get back from Big Kahuna Burger, well now we get to see what happened at Big Kahuna Burger and so on.
From Dusk Till Dawn also delves into the Aztec, Incan and Mayan mythology hinted at in the movie's memorable final shot; as Rodriguez attempts to bring a lot of elements together; most of it works, some of it doesn't but his creative impulse for doing the show become clear when the series breaks away from the movie (episode 4 onwards): For whereas the film and its straight-to-DVD prequels, were self-contained horror / action flicks, here we get a lot of interesting back story about who the vampires actually are, what they want and how the Gecko brothers fit into their plans e.g. in the movie, Salma Hayek's Santanico Pandemonium only had about 5-10 minutes of screen-time but Eiza Gonzalez gets a lot to work with in terms of Satanico's origin and her place in the vampire hierarchy. Robert Patrick's take on ex-pastor Jacob (originally played by Harvey Kietel) is quite good and the Gecko brothers themselves are given a slightly new twist: D.J. Cotrona plays it very similar to Clooney but just stops short of an impersonation, whilst Zane Holtz crafts an entirely new character for Riche Gecko: Quentin Tarantino's Richie Gecko was a geeky psychopath but Holtz plays him as a suave but awkward oddball and thus makes the character his own.
Good series, worth watching if you loved the film.
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All ten episodes from the first season of the supernatural vampire horror series based on the 1996 comic horror film 'From Dusk till Dawn'. The series follows Seth and Richie Gecko (D.J. Cotrona and Zane Holtz), two criminals who rob a bank before heading for the Mexican border. With the FBI and Texas Ranger Freddie Gonzalez (Jesse Garcia) on their tail, they seek refuge by taking Jacob Fuller (Robert Patrick) and his family hostage and using their RV as a form of seemingly inconspicuous transport. However, before they can travel into Mexico, drug lord Don Carlos (Wilmer Valderrama) advises them to go to a nearby strip club where they can lay low until the next morning. But nothing could prepare them for what awaits them at the club. The episodes are: 'Pilot', 'Blood Runs Thick', 'Mistress', 'Let's Get Ramblin'', 'Self-Contained', 'Place of Dead Roads', 'Pandemonium', 'La Conquista', 'Boxman' and 'The Take'.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The legendary and notorious Gecko brothers return with Seth and his violent unpredictable brother Richie on the run after Richie is haunted by visions of demons triggering a bloodbath during a bank robbery gone wrong Heading for the Mexico border the Geckos encounter former minister Jacob Fuller and his family whom they take hostage by commandeering their RV But when a run-in with a drug cartel reroutes the Geckos to a strip club populated by vampires they must all fight until dawn in order to survive Age Rating 18
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